New St John’s Ad — Driving Ms. Jolie

NOW there is your ULTIMATE woman. She radiates this classic beauty and femininity, yet you sense a bold persona and strength. Reminds me of that oxymoron title of ‘Steel Magnolia’. So very Angie. *Sigh* Can’t help thinking what if God was so kind and created me to be this beautiful. :mrgreen:

Angelina aint looking at what the hell jennifer aniston wears..I dont think anyone is looking at jennifer but her self. Angelina has been wearing black since forever. You maniston fans are in deniel ur chick is not pretty at all everyone is just kissing her ass except for me and these other brangelina fans here

The Most Expensive Celebrity Photos
Lacey Rose

In a media marketplace heavy on celebrity news, stories are interesting, but pictures reign supreme. Want proof? Just look at the price tags.

The past few years have seen an explosive rise in the prices paid for exclusive celebrity photos. Driven by the public’s desire for the nitty-gritty of celebrity life and celebrities’ moves to control–and profit from–their images, the photos on our list are testament to a maturing market worth tens of millions.

In Pictures: The Most Expensive Celebrity Photos
In Forbes’ list of the 10 most expensive celebrity photos, we surveyed top-priced photos sales in the United States over the past 10 years (our estimates are not adjusted for inflation). Since the entertainment magazines are notoriously tight-lipped about such sales, we were forced to rely on published reports and only considered photo sales where information was available.

Coming in at No. 1: The $4.1 million People magazine paid for the Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt baby photos in June last year. Second place went to Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher’s wedding photos, for which OK! magazine reportedly paid $3 million in October 2005. Overall, Pitt and Jolie dominate the list, with four of the top 10 slots. Photos that chronicled the sad saga of Anna Nicole Smith accounted for another three.

So what makes a photo worth $500,000 as opposed to $10,000?

Interest from one of the big celeb weeklies– People, In Touch, US Weekly or OK!–is the most important thing. All of the photos on our list got their big payday from one of these four publications. These magazines are willing to cough up millions because exclusive photos can set themselves apart in a field thick with competition–in print, on the tube and on the Web. Is it worth it? They think so.

For Dan Wakeford, executive editor of In Touch Weekly, there has to be some element of surprise, news and emotion involved for an image to spawn a bidding war between the entertainment outlets.

That’s why he reportedly paid $400,000 for a shot of Anna Nicole Smith with her son Daniel taken hours before his death. “The death of Anna Nicole’s son was the massive news story of the moment–it consumed the whole nation, and these pictures were so newsy and so emotive,” he says. “This was every mother’s worst nightmare, and through these pictures, America could empathize with what Anna Nicole was going through.”

Or consider the photos of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie strolling along an African beach, which US Weekly reported shelled out $500,000 to print in 2005. Beyond the picturesque locale and its beautiful subjects, the shots were a revealing arc in a much-publicized love story. Though no signs of affection were present in the photos, they served as validation of a rumored romance between Jolie and her Mr. and Mrs. Smith co-star Pitt, who had at that time recently split from wife Jennifer Aniston.

In recent years, stars have increasingly found that one way to control the media maelstrom is to get in on the action. Bold-faced names like Gwyneth Paltrow, Julia Roberts and Britney Spears have bypassed the scores of paps, as they’re often called, by tipping off a single photographer or hiring their own to capture big-ticket events such as nuptials and births. In addition to warding off droves of camera-clad onlookers at otherwise highly personal events, this type of arrangement guarantees both an image the stars approve of and a sum of money they pocket or, in many cases, donate to charity.

The most lucrative example to date came in the spring of 2006, when Jolie and Pitt peddled pictures of their biological daughter Shiloh Nouvel to People magazine. Rather than pocket the winnings, the humanitarian duo donated the funds to a selection of charities serving African children. The reported sum: $4.1 million–and that doesn’t include the $3.5 million that Hello! magazine reportedly coughed up for British rights to the shots.

In early July, OK! bought the pictures from the lavish Parisian wedding of Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria and NBA all-star Tony Parker. The exclusive set the celebrity weekly back a reported $2 million, placing the photos in a tie for third on our list.

Beyond the price tags, the types of pictures being snapped have changed in recent years as well. No longer reliant on staged moments, the paparazzi have moved to the streets (and the trees) to capture unstaged shots as well. Stars are just as likely to find themselves taking out the trash or walking their dog as posing on the red carpet in today’s tabloids.

Francois Navarre, who as the owner of X17 agency employs teams to trail a cadre of A-listers (think Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan) almost 24 hours a day, says this kind of extreme surveillance is necessary to beat the competition.

And though Ken Sunshine, a veteran publicist whose clients include Ben Affleck and Leonardo DiCaprio, calls the always-present flashbulbs “obtrusive to the point of insanity,” readers are drawn to the real-life element of these images, explains Harvey Levin, managing editor of Time Warner’s (nyse: TWX - news - people ) entertainment news Web site TMZ.com. “We’re covering real people and not plastic figures that have perfect hair, perfect makeup and perfect dresses on a red carpet, which is fantasy,” he says. And who wants that anymore?

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Today public is wanting RAW images rather than perfect hair or perfect dresses or perfect smiles on a red carpet.

150 pattong beach : 07/18/2007 at 8:27 pm - Please don’t post this…. enough already with this b*tch… Her lunatic fan comes on her with her crap, and people fall for it… Soon the whole thread will be about the b*tch

I am sorry to say this but some of the Jolie-Pitt fans need to grow the heck up. Every darn time you fall for the bait and next thing we know a great thread about our favorite family is ruined.

We all know the trolls have an agenda but it doesn’t mean we have to fall for it. Enough already!

Ted is on vacation : 07/18/2007 at 8:29 pm
Cristina is filling for him…

In her column today she had this.

Passion Project
Do you ever wonder what goes on between Brangelina behind closed doors? Of course you do, or you wouldn’t be reading this column in the first place, right?
Well, we’re happy to report the sultry sparks are still flying between Brad and Angie. Despite tabloid covers proclaiming otherwise, the two are still hot and heavy. How do we know? Proof’s in the following salty on-set sitch:
Worker bees were buzzin’ recently when one of them got an accidental eyeful of the amorous duo. It was the middle of the day, and they were both hangin’ in Brad’s trailer during downtime.
Someone was sent to fetch the talent from the trailer and unwittingly walked in on a little sexy somethin’-somethin’, er, going down, so to speak. Let’s just say they’re clearly still hot for each other. And remember how Ang told Marie Claire she and Brad needed more “alone time”? Seems they’ve found a way to work it into their busy lives…and if it happens to be on set, so be it!

WHAT A CHANGE AH?! from he doesn’t care about her to ******* their brains out in the trailer?!

Now, Brad has not filmed since he finished BB in L.A A long ass time ago!!

That tells you how update is Ted and his crew in their gossip lol

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Dude fire Ted and keep cristina! I don’t care if it is old gossip. When she says somehing going down, she means angie was giving him a BJ? damn!

Thanks Jared! I know there’s no news about Brad & Angie but this is good enough for me & I am sure majority of the fans. I like it when they are having peaceful times together. I just love it.

So to my fellow fans, let us just by-pass the haters, fanistons & naysayers. They do not deserve our attention.

Hello to Ate Cha, briseis, fellow Pinoys & coalharbourqt!

This is such a beautiful, classy and serene picture. Angie’s inner beauty and confidence showing through. There is a calmness about her coming through her pics now, instead of raw aggressive ones in her youth. Just wonderful.

Ted is on vacation : 07/18/2007 at 8:29 pm
Cristina is filling for him…

In her column today she had this.

Passion Project
Do you ever wonder what goes on between Brangelina behind closed doors? Of course you do, or you wouldn’t be reading this column in the first place, right?
Well, we’re happy to report the sultry sparks are still flying between Brad and Angie. Despite tabloid covers proclaiming otherwise, the two are still hot and heavy. How do we know? Proof’s in the following salty on-set sitch:
Worker bees were buzzin’ recently when one of them got an accidental eyeful of the amorous duo. It was the middle of the day, and they were both hangin’ in Brad’s trailer during downtime.
Someone was sent to fetch the talent from the trailer and unwittingly walked in on a little sexy somethin’-somethin’, er, going down, so to speak. Let’s just say they’re clearly still hot for each other. And remember how Ang told Marie Claire she and Brad needed more “alone time”? Seems they’ve found a way to work it into their busy lives…and if it happens to be on set, so be it!

WHAT A CHANGE AH?! from he doesn’t care about her to ******* their brains out in the trailer?!

Now, Brad has not filmed since he finished BB in L.A A long ass time ago!!

That tells you how update is Ted and his crew in their gossip lol

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Cristina is making look Ted like a tool and fool LMAO

Only a Faniston is delusional enough to bring JA’s name up as a standard for anything remotely beautiful…..in the face of this stunning picture.

It’s sad really, these people don’t know when to quit, I mean just pack it up and go on home.

i’m a fan of aj but this time i have to say this picture doesn’t do her justice, it just looks rather washed out. such a bad photo, the only thing that stands out is the shiny trim of the windshield. and the sunglasses blur out aj’s beautiful eyes. eh, yeah they managed to make her look meh here. i agree with “ew”.

Ted is on vacation : 07/18/2007 at 8:29 pm
Cristina is filling for him…

In her column today she had this.

Passion Project
Do you ever wonder what goes on between Brangelina behind closed doors? Of course you do, or you wouldn’t be reading this column in the first place, right?
Well, we’re happy to report the sultry sparks are still flying between Brad and Angie. Despite tabloid covers proclaiming otherwise, the two are still hot and heavy. How do we know? Proof’s in the following salty on-set sitch:
Worker bees were buzzin’ recently when one of them got an accidental eyeful of the amorous duo. It was the middle of the day, and they were both hangin’ in Brad’s trailer during downtime.
Someone was sent to fetch the talent from the trailer and unwittingly walked in on a little sexy somethin’-somethin’, er, going down, so to speak. Let’s just say they’re clearly still hot for each other. And remember how Ang told Marie Claire she and Brad needed more “alone time”? Seems they’ve found a way to work it into their busy lives…and if it happens to be on set, so be it!

WHAT A CHANGE AH?! from he doesn’t care about her to ******* their brains out in the trailer?!

Now, Brad has not filmed since he finished BB in L.A A long ass time ago!!

That tells you how update is Ted and his crew in their gossip lol
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Probably fake but I’ll take fake sexy brangelina gossip over fake mean gossip.

Keep Cristina on!!!!